We posted last week that Punch Brothers would be appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 2/29. The video from that program will be available online for a few more days. The Tonight Show keeps each full show up
Music
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Bill Evans: The Banjo in America
Known far and wide as a scholar specializing in banjo music, Bill Evans is bring the banjo to America. Bill performs in variety of ensemble settings, including his band Rustler's Moon, and shows with fiddler Megan Lynch. Bill also works as
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The Dan Tyminski Band – a review
Brance and I had the opportunity to see The Dan Tyminski Band in concert on Friday (2/29) at The Jefferson Center here in Roanoke, VA. We had been looking forward to seeing them perform since the formation of the band
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Dan Tyminski speaks
The Dan Tyminski Band performed in Roanoke this past Friday night, and we had a chance to sit down with Dan before the show to talk a bit about this latest chapter in his storied musical career. We also talked
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Scheerhorn CD update
We just received an update from Randy Kohrs about the Scheerhorn Guitars CD we had posted about back in December. The CD is being recorded in Randy's Slack Key Studio to showcase Tim Scheerhorn's celebrated instruments, featuring many of the pro
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Lovell Sisters to Europe this summer
We just received an email from a show promoter in Norway announcing that The Lovell Sisters would be spending two weeks touring Norway and Belgium in September of 2008. There is nothing up yet on the sisters' official web site -
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The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass
The Holy Mass has been the inspiration for some of the most beautiful music ever written. Celebrated composers like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Puccini have written Masses that are still performed to this day. In the modern era Igor
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Mountain Road and Big Country Bluegrass
The recently established Mountain Roads Recordings of Bristol, Tennessee, was formed by Karl and Gail Cooler to focus on unique sounds that originate in the mountains that we all love so well. They want to promote already established bluegrass and
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No School Bus In Heaven – 50 years on
"On Route 23 down in eastern Kentucky..." So begins the mournful song written by Jack Adkins and Buddy Dee, and recorded by the Stanley Brothers in February 1958 at Radio WCYB in Bristol, VA. No School Bus In Heaven was the
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Cherryholmes on WFDU
This morning (2/29) on Lonesome Pine RFD, Cherryholmes will join Carol Beaugard from 11:00 a.m. until noon for some live music and discussion. The show is broadcast on WFDU at 89.1 FM in the New York City metro market, and